Orbital Systems

Issued by Texas State University Continuing Education

Exploring the Milky Way Solar System in Virtual Reality (VR) While Orbiting Earth Inside the International Space Station. It is recommended that you use Google Chrome to view this badge for a better VR experience. To navigate through the lessons, use the arrows to the right to advance and to the left to go back. If you click the X in the upper corner, this will take you back to this homepage.

Type Learning
Level Foundational
Time Hours
Cost Free

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

(1) Learn about virtual reality (VR) and other technologies that influence society through the interdependence of science, engineering, and technology as applied by scientists and engineers at NASA. (2) Explore and use a model to describe the role of gravity and orbit in our solar system. (3) Analyze and interpret data using the orbital calculation to determine orbital parameters. (4) Using VR in the given space station model, analyze the solar system for the impact of orbital changes.

Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

(MS-ESS1-3); (MS-ESS1-2); (MS-ESS1-3); (MS-ESS1-1).